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Winter Wind Flows
Yesterday, I took a very short video capture from \wind map\ of the massive wind flows buffeting the northeast. I did the same this morning and stitched them together to see what a difference a day…
Data Crunching Competitions
I came across a list of data crunching and/or visualization competition sites today. I had heard of Kaggle & NITRD before but not the other ones. If you're looking to get into data analytics/visualization or get better at it, the only way…
Once More Into The [PRC Aggregated] Breaches
If you're not on the SecurityMetrics .org mailing list you missed an interaction about the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse Chronology of Data Breaches data source started by Lance Spitzner (@lspitzner). You'll need to subscribe to the list…
River Post Dissected
Good Stats, Bad Stats has a really good critique of my Mississippi River post that you should read (TL;DR: my graphs & analysis need…
SHODAN API in R (With Examples)
Folks may debate the merits of the SHODAN tool, but in my opinion it's a valuable resource, especially if used for "good". What is SHODAN? I think ThreatPost summed it up nicely…
How Low Can It [The Mississsippi River] Go?
I've heard quite a bit about the current problems with the Mississippi River and wanted to see for myself (with data) just how bad it…
Slopegraphs in R
If you even remotely follow this blog, you'll see that I'm kinda obsessed with slopegraphs . While I'm pretty happy with my Python implementation , I do quite a bit of data processing & data visualization in R these days and had a few free…
CVE Queries Right From Your Browser's Address Bar
I'm not sure why I never did this earlier, but a post on LifeHacker gave me an idea to add location bar quick search of CVEs (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures), no doubt due to their example on searching LifeHacker for…
Easier HTML Table-scraping For Scripts With Google Drive
We had our first, real, snowfall of the season in Maine today and that usually means school delays/closings. Our "local" station – @WCHS6 – has a Storm Center Closings page as well as an SMS notification service. I decided this morning…
The 'fing' Corollary
Back in 2011, @joshcorman posited "HD Moore's Law" which is…